Listen how they say your name. If they can't say that right, there's no way they're going to know how to treat you proper, neither.

There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints.

I see a resurgence of interest in poetry. I am less optimistic about the prospects for the arts when it comes to federal funding.

All of us have moments in our childhood where we come alive for the first time. And we go back to those moments and think, This is when I became myself.

A good poem is like a bouillon cube. It's concentrated and it nourishes you when you need it.

Courage has nothing to do with our determination to be great. It has to do with what we decide in that moment when we are called upon to be more.

Being true to yourself really means being true to all the complexities of the human spirit.

We should always do something that makes us feel like a child again. Keep learning, no matter what it is.

The library is an arena of possibility, opening both a window into the soul and a door onto the world.

I've always been intrigued by the way history works, the way we decide what is mentioned.

Sometimes a word is found so right it trembles at the slightest explanation.

Your nightmares follow you like a shadow, forever.

Do all hearts break the same way?

Paul's one thing was committing to forget about the past, to forge ahead into the future.

I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture.

It's good to be a little frightened. It's good to respect your opponent. It keeps you sharp. In the fight game, the head rules the heart. But in the end the heart is the boss.

Technology must be guided and driven by ethics if it is to do more than provide new toys for the rich.

When people see an actor speak, they think they know him or her, whereas I'm just a face or a body to them.

Once you have the gallows, you'll find new reasons to hang people from it.

One should rather die than be betrayed. There is no deceit in death. It delivers precisely what it has promised. Betrayal, though ... betrayal is the willful slaughter of hope.

Son, you outgrew my lap, but never my heart.